Stupidly, we recorded this one when we were both knackered, and it shows. It’s the longest we’ve done yet, and we’ve had to edit it to within an inch of it’s life to make it vaguely listenable! Anyway, for better or for worse, here’s episode 20!

Housekeeping!
Mark Boulton’s Designing for the Web, the best book we’ve seen in a long time. It’s a triumph!
We’re moving away from the RAF base at Rissington to the cute Cotswold town of Burford
The lovely folks at Sitepoint have given us 5 copies of Ian Lloyds “How to build your first website the right way using HTML and CSS” to give away. We also endorse this book. Email us by March 28th with suggestions for a new name for the podcast!
Links!
Simon Clayson’s IE6 filtering technique as used on this site.
The Tweed Run mentioned by Mr Dennis
Places to visit near Moreton-in-the-Marsh Batsford Arboretum, Wellington Aviation Museum and Stow on the Wold
Dude a day, which one are you?
Butter Label
The RYDA Bear
Beep! Beep! It’s Chav Pingu
Cheeky Monkey was also mentioned
Jason Santa Maria’s Recommended Books
Mister Nice Hands
Robin Reliant made into raft

In the latest London IA Podcast we host a wide-ranging conversation with Cennydd Bowles on moving from user experience design to digital product designer, what it takes to develop visual design skills, freelancing, A List Apart, writing a book, conference speaking and of course that legendary animal of European folklore.

Hosted by Matthew Solle and Andrew Travers. Produced by Will Myddelton and Matthew Solle.

Native applications are a remnant of the Jurassic period of computer history. We will look back on these past 10 years as the time we finally grew out of our desktop mindset and started down the path of writing apps for an infinite number of platforms. As the cost of computation and connectivity plummets, manufacturers are going to put ‘interactivity’ into every device. Some of this will be trivial: my power adaptor knows it’s charging history. Some of it will be control related: my television will be grand central for my smart home. But at it’s heart, we’ll be swimming in world where every device will have ‘an app’. What will it take for us to get here, what technologies will it take to make this happen?

This talk will discuss how the principles of the open web must apply not only to prototocols but to hardware as well. How can we build a ‘DNS for hardware’ so the menagerie of devices has a chance for working together?

Scott Jenson used to work at Apple, developing the Human Interface guidelines and working on the Newton, no less. He also worked at Symbian and Google so he knows all about mobile devices of all kinds.

Scott is currently Creative Director at Frog Design where he has been writing about the coming zombie apocalypse.